Studies have been made on the effects of the nature, textile structure, and strength characteristics of fibrous reinforcement and on hybrid reinforcement, nature of the polymer matrix, and the addition of ultrafine diamond powder on the coefficient of friction and wear of a polymer composite containing a thermoreactive matrix. The tests were performed in air without lubricant with an insert-shaft pair scheme with counterbody composed of chromed cast iron and with a ceramic counterbody (boron carbide, silicon carbide and nitride) at sliding speeds of 5, 10, and 15 m/sec and pressure 0.5 MPa. Glass plastics show more wear than carbon plastics on reinforcements with woven or knitted structures. The carbon plastics have tribotechnical properties at the level of the best ones. The ultrafine diamond powder substantially reduced the wear. The best tribotechnical properties occurred with the friction pair carbon-glass plastic against silicon nitride.Industry produces a wide range of polymers, reinforcing fibers, and fillers, and there is also the capacity for using one polymer or a mixture of polymers with fibers of different type and finely divided fillers to produce a variety of polymer composites (PC) whose properties most fully correspond to the working conditions of components and structures [1][2][3][4].This institute has developed a wide range of polymer composites reinforced with fibrous structures, including materials for tribotechnical purposes [5,6]. To produce new materials viable under conditions of heavy friction load, comparative tests were performed on composites made in this country and abroad, as well as experimental matrices made with phenol-formaldehyde and epoxide resins. We examined how the coefficient of friction and the wear are affected by the nature and textile structure of the fibrous reinforcement, the strength characteristics of the reinforcing fabric, combined reinforcement with filaments of differing types, the form of the polymer material and the addition of ultrafine wear-resistant filler.As a reinforcing material we used not only carbon-fiber cloth "Desna" UUT-2 (TU 6-06-I78-85) and glass cloth T-10(80) (GOST 19170-73) but also knitted structures: carbon-fiber strip UTL (TU 88 Ukr. SSR 06280-81) made from UN-2 filament (TU 88 Ukr. SSR 06278-82), KT silica strip (TU 06589-84), and a combined carbon-glass fiber strip.It has been shown [5, 6] that reinforcing components with knitted structure have advantages over woven ones. The deformability of reinforcing elements in knitted structure attains hundreds of percent, whereas the deformability of *Deceased.